Sangye is a highly valuable medicinal herb that can be used as medicine or as a health drink when soaked in water. It is especially effective in relieving cough and moisturizing the lungs when combined with other teas. Let's take a look at the effectiveness and benefits of Sangye!
1. Moisturizes the Lungs and Stops Coughing
Sangye is a great remedy for treating lung heat cough and dry heat cough. Due to its dual characteristics of clearing lung heat and moisturizing the lungs, Sangye can be used for lung heat or dry heat injury, cough with little phlegm that is yellow and sticky, or dry cough with little phlegm, itchy throat, and other symptoms.
For mild symptoms, it can be used in combination with apricot kernel, sand ginseng, and fritillaria, such as Sangye Apricot Kernel Decoction (3g Sangye, 4.5g apricot kernel, 6g sand ginseng, 3g fritillaria, 3g mint, 3g gardenia, 3g pear peel);
For slightly more severe symptoms, it can be used in combination with gypsum, ophiopogon, and donkey-hide gelatin, such as Clear Heat and Nourish the Lungs Decoction (9g frost Sangye, 8g gypsum, 3g licorice, 3g roasted sesame seeds, 3g real donkey-hide gelatin, 3g roasted loquat leaf, 4g ophiopogon, 2g ginseng, 2g roasted apricot kernel).
2. Dispels Wind and Cold
Sangye has remarkable effects in treating wind-heat cold and mild warm diseases. Sangye has a light and clear dispersing effect, although its ability to dispel wind and heat is relatively mild. However, it can clear lung heat and moisturize the lungs, making it commonly used for wind-heat cold or early-stage warm diseases, fever, sore throat, cough, and other symptoms caused by lung heat invasion.
It is commonly used in combination with chrysanthemum flowers, forsythia, peppermint, and balloon flower to enhance its effects, such as the famous Sangye Chrysanthemum Drink (7.5g Sangye, 3g chrysanthemum flower, 6g apricot kernel, 5g forsythia, 2.5g peppermint, 6g balloon flower, 2.5g licorice, 6g reed root).
3. Clears Liver and Brightens Eyes
Sangye is also effective in treating red and blurry vision. Sangye has a bitter and cold nature, which can dispel wind and heat. It can be used to treat red eyes, dryness, pain, excessive tearing, and other symptoms caused by wind-heat rising and liver fire flaring up.
It can be combined with chrysanthemum flowers, cicada slough, and summer cypress to disperse wind and heat and clear the liver and brighten the eyes;
Sangye is bitter and moisturizing, and it has the ability to clear and drain liver heat. If it is used for symptoms such as dizziness and headache caused by liver heat, it can be used in combination with chrysanthemum flowers, calcined gardenia, and summer cypress;
Sangye nourishes yin and brightens the eyes. If the symptoms are caused by insufficient liver and kidney essence and blood, such as poor nourishment of the eyes, blurry vision, and unclear vision, it can be used in combination with nourishing blood and essence black sesame. For example, Sangye Sesame Pills (10g Sangye, 4g black sesame, 10g white honey), Fusan Pills (Sangye and black sesame are equal parts, honey pills).
4. Antibacterial and Anti-inflammatory
In daily life, if the skin is scratched, crushed Sangye can be applied to the wound. If the area is large, Sangye can be brewed into a soup and lightly wiped on the wound. Experimental evidence has shown that the minerals in Sangye have inhibitory effects on bacteria.
